nothing

American Studies

Currently limited to: series theater_theory_text_performance Theater: Theory/Text/Performance x
Note: selecting an item from the following dropdown will result in the page reloading, sorted by the selected criterion. (This assumes that JavaScript is enabled; otherwise, a button will be provided to submit the change.)
1. Cover image for 'Racing the Great White Way'
Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $39.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Hardcover $85.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Web Open Access Forthcoming
1. Cover image for 'Racing the Great White Way'
Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $39.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Hardcover $85.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Web Open Access Forthcoming
1. Cover image for 'Racing the Great White Way'
Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $39.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Hardcover $85.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Racing the Great White Way" to Cart
Web Open Access Forthcoming
2. Cover image for 'Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way'
Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $34.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Hardcover $80.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way"
2. Cover image for 'Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way'
Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $34.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Hardcover $80.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way"
2. Cover image for 'Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way'
Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper $34.95 Forthcoming Add Paper for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Hardcover $80.00 Forthcoming Add Hardcover for "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way" to Cart
Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way"
3. Cover image for 'Democracy Moving'
Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past
Ariel Nereson

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2022 $39.95 Available Add Paper for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Hardcover 2022 $85.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Democracy Moving"
3. Cover image for 'Democracy Moving'
Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past
Ariel Nereson

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2022 $39.95 Available Add Paper for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Hardcover 2022 $85.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Democracy Moving"
3. Cover image for 'Democracy Moving'
Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past
Ariel Nereson

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2022 $39.95 Available Add Paper for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Hardcover 2022 $85.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Democracy Moving" to Cart
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Democracy Moving"
4. Cover image for 'Moving Islands'
Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific
Diana Looser
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Hardcover 2021 $80.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Moving Islands" to Cart
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Moving Islands"
4. Cover image for 'Moving Islands'
Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific
Diana Looser
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Hardcover 2021 $80.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Moving Islands" to Cart
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Moving Islands"
5. Cover image for 'Immersions in Cultural Difference'
Tourism, War, Performance
Natalie Alvarez
How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2018 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Hardcover 2018 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Immersions in Cultural Difference"
5. Cover image for 'Immersions in Cultural Difference'
Tourism, War, Performance
Natalie Alvarez
How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2018 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Hardcover 2018 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Immersions in Cultural Difference"
5. Cover image for 'Immersions in Cultural Difference'
Tourism, War, Performance
Natalie Alvarez
How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2018 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Hardcover 2018 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Immersions in Cultural Difference" to Cart
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Immersions in Cultural Difference"
6. Cover image for 'Haunted City'
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Christian DuComb
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation

 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2017 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Haunted City" to Cart
Hardcover 2017 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Haunted City" to Cart
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Haunted City"
6. Cover image for 'Haunted City'
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Christian DuComb
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation

 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2017 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Haunted City" to Cart
Hardcover 2017 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Haunted City" to Cart
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Haunted City"
6. Cover image for 'Haunted City'
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Christian DuComb
Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2017 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Haunted City" to Cart
Hardcover 2017 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Haunted City" to Cart
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Haunted City"
7. Cover image for 'Coloring Whiteness'
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $34.95 Available Add Paper for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $80.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coloring Whiteness"
7. Cover image for 'Coloring Whiteness'
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $34.95 Available Add Paper for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $80.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coloring Whiteness"
7. Cover image for 'Coloring Whiteness'
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Reading representations of whiteness by contemporary African American performers and artists
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $34.95 Available Add Paper for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $80.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Coloring Whiteness" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coloring Whiteness"
8. Cover image for 'The Captive Stage'
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $32.95 Available Add Paper for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Captive Stage"
8. Cover image for 'The Captive Stage'
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $32.95 Available Add Paper for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Captive Stage"
8. Cover image for 'The Captive Stage'
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $32.95 Available Add Paper for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Captive Stage" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Captive Stage"
9. Cover image for 'Simming'
Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning
Scott Magelssen
How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $36.95 Available Add Paper for "Simming" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $89.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Simming" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Simming"
9. Cover image for 'Simming'
Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning
Scott Magelssen
How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $36.95 Available Add Paper for "Simming" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $89.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Simming" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Simming"
9. Cover image for 'Simming'
Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning
Scott Magelssen
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2014 $36.95 Available Add Paper for "Simming" to Cart
Hardcover 2014 $89.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Simming" to Cart
Ebook 2014 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Simming"
10. Cover image for 'Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex'
Race, Madness, Activism
Tony Perucci
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2012 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart
Hardcover 2012 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart
Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex"
10. Cover image for 'Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex'
Race, Madness, Activism
Tony Perucci
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2012 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart
Hardcover 2012 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart
Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex"
11. Cover image for 'The Problem of the Color[blind]'
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Brandi Wilkins Catanese
How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2011 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Hardcover 2011 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Problem of the Color[blind]"
11. Cover image for 'The Problem of the Color[blind]'
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Brandi Wilkins Catanese
How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2011 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Hardcover 2011 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Problem of the Color[blind]"
11. Cover image for 'The Problem of the Color[blind]'
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Brandi Wilkins Catanese
How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2011 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Hardcover 2011 $84.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Problem of the Color[blind]" to Cart
Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Problem of the Color[blind]"
12. Cover image for 'No Safe Spaces'
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Angela C. Pao
Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2010 $33.95 Available Add Paper for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Hardcover 2010 $94.95 Available Add Hardcover for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "No Safe Spaces"
12. Cover image for 'No Safe Spaces'
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Angela C. Pao
Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2010 $33.95 Available Add Paper for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Hardcover 2010 $94.95 Available Add Hardcover for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "No Safe Spaces"
12. Cover image for 'No Safe Spaces'
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Angela C. Pao
Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2010 $33.95 Available Add Paper for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Hardcover 2010 $94.95 Available Add Hardcover for "No Safe Spaces" to Cart
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "No Safe Spaces"
13. Cover image for 'Embodying Black Experience'
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2010 $33.95 Available Add Paper for "Embodying Black Experience" to Cart
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Embodying Black Experience"
13. Cover image for 'Embodying Black Experience'
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2010 $33.95 Available Add Paper for "Embodying Black Experience" to Cart
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Embodying Black Experience"
14. Cover image for 'The President Electric'
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
Timothy Raphael

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2009 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The President Electric" to Cart
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The President Electric"
14. Cover image for 'The President Electric'
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2009 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "The President Electric" to Cart
Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The President Electric"
15. Cover image for 'Performing Conquest'
Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Patricia A. Ybarra

An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Hardcover 2009 $79.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Performing Conquest" to Cart
16. Cover image for 'Playing Underground'
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
Stephen J. Bottoms
The first comprehensive history of Off-Off Broadway
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2006 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Playing Underground" to Cart
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing Underground"
16. Cover image for 'Playing Underground'
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
Stephen J. Bottoms
The first comprehensive history of Off-Off Broadway
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2006 $24.95 Available Add Paper for "Playing Underground" to Cart
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing Underground"
17. Cover image for 'Arthur Miller's America'
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Enoch Brater, Editor
International critics explore Arthur Miller's longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2005 $30.95 Available Add Paper for "Arthur Miller's America" to Cart
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Arthur Miller's America"
17. Cover image for 'Arthur Miller's America'
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Enoch Brater, Editor
International critics explore Arthur Miller's longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2005 $30.95 Available Add Paper for "Arthur Miller's America" to Cart
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Arthur Miller's America"
18. Cover image for 'Performing America'
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, Editors
How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2001 $39.95 Available Add Paper for "Performing America" to Cart
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Performing America"
18. Cover image for 'Performing America'
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, Editors
How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2001 $39.95 Available Add Paper for "Performing America" to Cart
Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Performing America"
19. Cover image for 'Taking It to the Streets'
The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2001 $26.95 Available Add Paper for "Taking It to the Streets" to Cart
Hardcover 1997 $75.00 Out of Stock Add Hardcover for "Taking It to the Streets" to Cart
19. Cover image for 'Taking It to the Streets'
The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Paper 2001 $26.95 Available Add Paper for "Taking It to the Streets" to Cart
Hardcover 1997 $75.00 Out of Stock Add Hardcover for "Taking It to the Streets" to Cart
Currently limited to: series theater_theory_text_performance Theater: Theory/Text/Performance x
static

American Studies Subject Catalog


nothing
nothing
nothing
nothing